Combined trough-supporter and flock-separator



(No Model.)

JQJ'. LONGABA'UGH. COMBINED TROUGH SUPPORTER- AND FLOUK SEPABATOR. No. 465,483. Patented Dec. 22,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J LONGABAUGH, OF GRAYS LAKE, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED TROUGH-SUPPORTER AND FLOCK-SEPARATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,483, dated December 22, 1891. Application filed April 22, 1891. fierial No. 390,066, (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN J. LONGABAUGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grays Lake, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Combined Trough Supporter and Flock-Separator; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains two wooden sections of my flock-separator,

consisting of three vertical parallel bars a (t a, connected and spaced by the cross-board a near the middle of one side, said board being nailed or otherwise fastened to the bars a. At the opposite side of said bars and at the upper end thereof is made fast the board a A little below the boards a the bars a on the two sections are crossed and there connected by the pivots a These pivots have a flat head at one end and at the other a thread on which work a nut and washer a a When the sections are spread apart at the bottom,

the board a of each section rests on the outer face of the bars a of the opposite section, thus preventing said sections from being spread too far apart.

B are hook-rods, the two end hooks on each rod engaging the eyes 0 C on the inner face of the bars a a, the effect being to resist any outward expansion or inward contraction of the two sections.

D D are feed-troughs supported on the rods B and within easyreach of the sheep of two flocks on opposite sides thereof.

The boards a a will prevent the sheep from climbing up into the troughs or j umping over them, so as to dirty the food, which would not then be eaten, but wasted. As many of these trough-supporters may be used as the flocks require.

What I claim as 'new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

A flock-separator and feed-trough supporter consisting of the cross-pivoted bars a a, connected by the board a on the outside and the board a on the inside near the upper end and held apart in the inside near the bottom by the hook-rods B, which also serve to support the feed-trough, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof 1, JOHN J. LONGA- BAUGH, affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN J. LONGABAUGH. WVitnesses:

A. R. RICE, CYRUS B. HARVEY, 

